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July,
2002, Initial Installation:
The initial version of the database included some 1,200
full-text articles.
January,
2003, Update: Some 600 full-text articles were added to the database,
making the total number available in the database around 1,800.
July,
2003, Update: Some 700 full-text articles were added to the database,
making the total number available in the database around 2,500.
January,
2004, Update:
Some 500 full-text articles were added to the database, making
the total number available in the database around 3,000. Also, dates of publication were added to some 65% of
references in the database.
In addition, some 300 "health" entries
associated with major cities were elaborated to indicate more
completely the content of the articles to which the entries
referred.
July,
2004, Update: Some 550 full-text articles were added to the database,
making the total number available in the database around 3,550.
Additional date-of-publication entries were added to
multiple-issue citations from volumes 1 through 20.
All non-Congressional "no-text" entries were
fully elaborated for the following individuals:
Tsar Alexander, Napoleon Bonaparte, John C. Calhoun,
Henry Clay, King George III, King George IV, William Henry
Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James
Monroe, Queen Victoria, and Daniel Webster.
January,
2005, Update: Some 550 full-text articles were added to the database,
making the total number available in the database around 4,100.
Additional date-of-publication entries were added to
multiple-issue citations from volumes 21 through 35.
All non-Congressional "no-text" entries were
fully elaborated for the following individuals:
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Jean Baptiste Jules
Bernadotte (King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Norway), King
Charles X of France, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Duke of
Wellington, and King William IV of England.
July,
2005, Update: Some 500 full-text articles were added to the database,
making the total number available in the database around 4,600.
Additional date-of-publication entries were added to
multiple-issue citations from volumes 36 through 50.
All non-Congressional "no-text" entries were
fully elaborated for the following individuals:
the Earl of Aberdeen, Lewis Cass, Benjamin Franklin,
Samuel Houston, Robert Peel, John Rodgers, Zachary Taylor, and
George Washington.
January,
2006, Update: Some 500 full-text articles were added to the database,
making the total number available in the database around 5,100.
In addition, the notation of publication dates was
expanded. In
previous updates, publication dates – e.g., (Issue of August
26, 1815) – were added to hundreds of thousands of
single-issue volume-and-page references, including approximately
65% of all references in the database. The latest batch of publication-date notations has increased
the number of references containing such notations to
approximately 75% of all references in the database.
Additional publication-date notations will be added in
future updates.
July,
2006, Update: Some 500 full-text articles were added to the
database. There are
now approximately 5,600 full-text articles in the database, up
from some 5,100 after the last update in January, 2006.
In addition, “no-text” entries were expanded under a
number of headings. These
are mere volume-and-page references opposite an index entry,
without any further explanatory text.
In the current update, explanatory text was added to the
previous no-text entries that appeared for Nicholas Biddle (US
banker), John Davis (Massachusetts politician), Dominique F.J.
Arago (French astronomer), Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia
(Paraguayan dictator), Francis I (Prince Royal and King of
Naples), the Bank of America (New York), three
colleges/universities, and three ships of the US Navy (the
Brandywine, Cyane, and Delaware).
January, 2007, Update: Some 500
full-text articles were added to the database.
There are now approximately 6,100 full-text articles in
the database, up from some 5,600 after the last update in July,
2006. In addition, “no-text” entries were expanded under a
number of headings. These
are mere volume-and-page references opposite an index entry,
without any further explanatory text.
In the current update, explanatory text was added to the
previous no-text entries that appeared for William
A’Court (British diplomat), Jim Bowie, Louis-Eugene Cavaignac
(French solider and politician), Elliot Cresson
(philanthropist), Abraham Lincoln, Horace Mann (educator,
politician), Thomas Loraine McKenney (US Indian Department
official), Duke of Montpensier (French nobleman), William Nott
(British soldier), Hiram Powers (sculptor), George Rapp (social
reformer), Ranjit Singh (Sikh leader), Arthur Sinclair (US naval
officer), and Joseph Story (US Supreme Court justice).
July, 2007, Update: Some
500 full-text
articles were added to the database.
There are now approximately 6,600 full-text articles in
the database, up from some 6,100 after the last update in
January, 2007. In
addition, “no-text” entries were expanded under a number of
headings. These are
mere volume-and-page references opposite an index entry, without
any further explanatory text.
In the current update, explanatory text was added to the
previous non-congressional no-text entries that appeared for
James Gordon Bennett (journalist), William Wyatt Bibb
(politician, governor of Alabama), Charles Albert (prince and
king of Sardinia),
Langdon Cheves (lawyer, South Carolina politician,
banker), John
Fairfield (Maine politician),
Theodore Frelinghuysen (New Jersey politician, educator),
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (scientist, head of the US
coast survey), Baptist Irvine (journalist, adventurer), Peter
Little (soldier, Maryland congressman), Francisco Xavier Mina
(Mexican revolutionary), Manuel Oribe (Uruguayan politician),
William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania),
James Riley (mariner, adventure writer), Thomas Sully
(painter), John
Trumbull (painter), Nicholas
Vansittart (Baron Bexley – British politician, long-time
chancellor of the exchequer), and
Joseph Warren (doctor, Bunker Hill martyr). |